I do think Donald Trump would be a catastrophic turn in American history. — George Packer Copy Share Image
Politics should be, you know, as exciting as literature, as exciting film. — George Packer Copy Share Image
We have at least learned that the offspring of presidents don't necessarily make good politicians themselves. — George Packer Copy Share Image
American politics can produce great men and women, but it is profoundly insular. — George Packer Copy Share Image
When Donald Trump says make America great again, we know whose America that is. — George Packer Copy Share Image
What goes on in a person's head, what impels them to a political choice, it's a pretty complicated question. — George Packer Copy Share Image
When Donald Trump in one speech said I love the poorly educated - which was a remarkable thing to say - he… — George Packer Copy Share Image
Character is destiny, and politicians usually get the scandals they deserve, with a sense of inevitability about them. — George Packer Copy Share Image
Hillary Clinton's such a classic Democratic political figure and believes so much in institutions and in gradualism in the old way of… — George Packer Copy Share Image
Too many talented and supremely calculating politicians, including Nixon and Clinton, have destroyed their careers, or come close, by acting in ways… — George Packer Copy Share Image
Gingrich was a far more volatile and aggressive individual than Boehner, but the institutional norms of self-restraint, and perhaps even self-interest, have… — George Packer Copy Share Image
When Donald Trump yells at his supporters to throw somebody out of the hall - and usually that somebody is brown or… — George Packer Copy Share Image
If Hillary Clinton becomes president, how is she going to be able to get the country behind her when she seems like… — George Packer Copy Share Image
I don't think of Hillary Clinton as a bad choice. She's an uninspiring choice. She is a deeply imperfect choice, largely for… — George Packer Copy Share Image
We all have a dark side but we keep it in its place because it's destructive. And Donald Trump has said, no,… — George Packer Copy Share Image
If the presidential nominating process were an international sports competition, one would assume that top officials of both parties were taking envelopes… — George Packer Copy Share Image
The ranks of educated professional swelled as more Americans went to college and more Americans sort of adopted a more cosmopolitan lifestyle… — George Packer Copy Share Image
Before the nineteen-seventies, most Republicans in Washington accepted the institutions of the welfare state, and most Democrats agreed with the logic of… — George Packer Copy Share Image
In a sense, whites who were always sort of the unthinking majority who didn't think of themselves necessarily as one among many… — George Packer Copy Share Image
The way Donald Trump talks about the problems of black Americans as a kind of separate group who are not part of… — George Packer Copy Share Image
I don't think they need to be nice to reporters, but the White House seems to imagine that releasing information is like a tap… — George Packer Copy Share Image
So many writers grew up in tortured isolation, in revolt against their families. I and my sister were in a house where writing was… — George Packer Copy Share Image
Afghanistan can't police its borders, and its neighbors give sanctuary and assistance to insurgents. — George Packer Copy Share Image
Hillary Clinton's such a classic Democratic political figure and believes so much in institutions and in gradualism in the old way of reaching compromises… — George Packer Copy Share Image
“In other words, Foxx represented what Sarah Palin (speaking at a campaign fundraiser in Greensboro three weeks before the election) called “the real America,”… — George Packer Copy Share Image
America's vast population of working poor can only get so poor before even Walmart is out of reach. — George Packer Copy Share Image
'The Assassins' Gate' is a very tightly controlled story of the ideas that led to the war and the consequences of those ideas in… — George Packer Copy Share Image
Amazon's identity and goals are never clear and always fluid, which makes the company destabilizing and intimidating. — George Packer Copy Share Image
Ideology knows the answer before the question has been asked. Principles are something different: a set of values that have to be adapted to… — George Packer Copy Share Image
Everything seems set up for success in digital journalism - money, eyeballs, software, brands. — George Packer Copy Share Image
Climate change joined immigration, job creation, food safety, pilot training, veterans' care, campaign finance, transportation security, labor law, mine safety, wildfire management, and scores… — George Packer Copy Share Image
